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This article discusses how you can sharpen your mind and increase energy levels at any age, while minimizing effects of Reactive Oxydative Stress (ROS) and ATP (adenosine triphosphate)--prolonging effects of demyelinating disease on everyday brain and body function. Role of Reactive Oxidative Stress (ROS) and its reduction Bhat Bu-Yang-Huan-Wu Decoction (BYHWD) may combat Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology and other neurodegenerative diseases, and their early onset, by reducing amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques and formation, and addressing related energy deficits. AD pathology is associated with reduced levels of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the primary energy carrier in cells.  Addressed in this research is the following: What diseases and symptoms show signs of amyloid plaques? How are the brain plaques identified? What signs identify ROS buildup? What is known about amyloid plaque loads and disease? How can we dissolve amyloid plaque loads? What diseases show brain plaques on MRI? Wh...

Once, not too long ago a colleague of mine, Connie Snyder married the then President & CEO of Microsoft. She's a fantastic woman from my hometown and I never completely answered the question she used to put on my monitor daily: 'Kris, ask yourself Why Are You Doing This?' After Ph.D. schooling, M.S. studies, (Psychology/Counseling) and various other projects of rehabilitating much of the universe: Connie, today I think your message hit me light a lightning rod. And I appreciate the meaning of your Map room :) I always wondered why the people I took on press tours and worked with ended up marrying CEOs or the like. So, with a reflective lens, I've finally decided that in order to best care for my work, I have to first be happy and decide what's best for me! So Melissa Waggener, if you see this article please let Connie know I said hello and give all my best to Ms. French. I miss you ladies. '

Risk Control and Management in the Banking Sector: Part II While we may write many dissertations in route to our goal, it is not known, via scholarly frameworks and empirical literature, how individuals, terrorists, and bad actors can mediate AI outcomes by disrupting best practices in the banking sector.  Or was that a misnomer?  Considered are significant recommendations that banks should contribute to and integrate accordingly as advanced AI-driven analytics that proactively detect and mitigate risks. Scholarly literature suggests (Lion, et, al., 2025) banks should invest in and integrate accordingly AI-driven analytics to proactively detect and mitigate risks. Step by step measures include: 1. Machine learning algorithms and predictive analytics, as inductive to research , can analyze vast amounts of data in real-time, identifying (thematic) patterns and anomalies indicative of potential threats.  2. To guarantee adherence to regulatory standards and reduce risk of n...

  Photo Credit: L.A. Violence Following Rodney King Ruling To understand why violent events occur, it is important to evaluate occurrences historically and, to utilize case precedence, as judges would, in order to determine a ruling. (Think ABCs of the empirical cognitive behavioral theory REBT: antecedent, behavior, and consequences.) In this writing, a phenomenology design was utilized, and a method of triangulation was applied. This research method is used to answer specific applicable research questions such as: What caused the most recent L.A. riots, how does it relate to the Rodney King riot, what role does race play in triggering riots, and how are riots a common milieu tactic, and how is the recent January 6 event related, and lastly, how does the body react to traumatic events and for how long? There are two significant events, examined herein as themes, that occurred in Los Angeles, It is not known if these events occurred as retribution to rulings. Not too distant ruling...

  (Photo Credit: Fritz Perls) Albert Ellis developed a therapeutic treatment called Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) in the 1950s. REBT is an extension of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) developed by Aaron Beck in the 1960s. These therapeutic modalities are useful in coping with a host of hurt locker challenges from chronic pain, to death, to observing death (such as with military Veterans and police), eating disorders, overcoming violence, grieving loss of a spouse/partner, etc. The Department of Veterans Affairs utilizes these treatment modalities to improve focus, as restructuring negative thought patterns and behaviors, typically for eight weeks.  These treatments are widely used to reframe how individuals feel and think about situations in the current context.  My personal favorite is the ABCs of REBT and I've attached a link to a REBT worksheet below. The ABCs are as follows: A=Event, B=Behavior, C=Outcomes.  Let's use a rhetorical analogy with REB...

Neighborhood Dealers & School Days In the very recent past, my daughter was attending a local S.W. community high school. This memory is easily recollected, like a still frame in my mind, seeing young kids with backpacks on sitting outside a convenience store a quarter mile from the nearby high school. This occurrence manifested enough times to spark a little more than curiosity.  Observations, thus, were taken a step further. On several additional trips to the high school, it was decided to sit in the car at this convenience mart to write down exactly what was occurring. An individual would exit the store and leave a package nearby a dumpster outside whereby the adolescent picked up the bag. There are two possibilities to describe what was occurring: 1. The store was feeding the school kid—perhaps not cared for at home or 2. The man coming out of the store was dealing drugs 3. Money allegedly had already been exchanged inside the store What is known is the store was clos...

This post is a bit like narrative storytelling, but not, from a member of the Department of Public Safety. Accordingly, I will use the nearest proximity rule, and not reflect on developmental theory and trauma, which in reflection proves useful-in not repeating patterns of mistakes, and for many proves useful in solving issues of probable conduct adjustment.  With beneficence, I think of recent artifacts received from some musicians: "Why don't you just heal yourself" and "Not another, blah, blah, blah post". It is not known if these manifestations are of ill intent, nor did they understand who they were speaking with. What is known is behavior of conduct disorder repeats within three years, as aligned with the Deputy Director, and there is nowhere to hide.  Behaviorally, it is vetted via microaggressions and unfortunately, for some, as microaggressions. While inductively and deductively you can manifest similar results either way. Make sense? As a counselor and...

 Anti inflammation Diseases and Purported Anti-measures Make Smart Environmental Choices Part 1 With a reflective lens to 2020, Weiner and Chitnus found a (still) growing body of evidence of inflammatory challenges to the central nervous system (CNS). This empirical evidence indicates inflammation, and diet play a pivotal role in CNS neurodegenerative diseases.  Variables to avoid as anticipated triggers to exacerbate bodily inflammation include stress, environmental triggers to stress, abuse (and abusive situations as microaggressions and macro aggressions in environments), as well as geography.  What is meant by CNS disease? Diseases of the central nervous system include Alzheimer’s, ALS or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and multiple sclerosis (MS). Observations taken at various stages of CNS neurodegeneration involve, both adaptive and innate, are evidenced via immune system presentations during the disease life cycle. Moreover, neurodegeneration, may not accelerate di...

  13-1202 .  Threatening or intimidating; classification Arizona Law A. A person commits threatening or intimidating if the person threatens or intimidates by word or conduct: 1. To cause physical injury to another person or serious damage to the property of another; or 2. To cause, or in reckless disregard to causing, serious public inconvenience including, but not limited to, evacuation of a building, place of assembly or transportation facility; or 3. To cause physical injury to another person or damage to the property of another in order to promote, further or assist in the interests of or to cause, induce or solicit another person to participate in a criminal street gang, a criminal syndicate or a racketeering enterprise. B. Threatening or intimidating pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1 or 2 is a class 1 misdemeanor, except that it is a class 6 felony if: 1. The offense is committed in retaliation for a victim's either reporting criminal activity or being involved in a...

  Domestic violence whether throwing hits, or being hit, or speaking abusive words -- it's all domestic violence and diagnosable in the DSM V. During my M.S. Professional Counseling work, I worked with a team to deliver food to women's shelters -- woman residing at the short-long term facility -- escaping domestic abuse in their home environment all while receiving positive living tips and knowledge of domestic violence perps. With today's Internet and social media, it becomes difficult to avoid exposure to painful images. Counselors learn how to take painful attacks or images head on by bracketing or tabling the data in a different compartment of the brain, to come back to it at an appropriate time. However, when one controls the media and the data they wish to display. as with malfeasance to harm someone, you really need to consider the source. What type of person would purposely harm someone with online images? It is a being with dark personality traits of sadism, religi...

 State Implementation of Authentic Music Therapy  Problem It is not known how to be consistently happy. Abstract The efficacy of evidence-based methods, or evidence-based therapy treatment EBT, was studied at inpatient behavioral treatment facilities in the United States to determine both short and long-term efficacy in generation z individuals (born 1997-2012) in the United States. WHAT IS EBT Evidence treatment therapy is trauma-survivor focused therapy and methods used such as with Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of talk therapy that can be used to treat people with a wide range of health problems, including generalized or social anxiety disorders. Music therapy is an empirically evidenced intervention to help people improve their daily behavioral and mental health, and overall wellbeing. Interventions of music therapy address goals around the individual regulating his or her behavior, the way they cope with...

How quickly we forget It was January 2020 when Covid reached the desert in Phoenix, Ariz. As of June 3, 2021, Arizona Public Health Authorities reported 322 cases of Covid 19 and five deaths. Recent X twitters, April 2025, from 'alleged' someone in the recruiting sector asked for explanation of absence during Covid.....Come on, stay with us. Analogies are great in writing. If you don't forget x girlfriends or boyfriends, out of purported mutual respect or perhaps a flame that still burns, you do not forget something like Covid. (Guess that implied love is a disease of the heart, lol. Things that rock your world: no pun intended. I'm wondering if people just smoke too much weed or something that affects their memory or, perhaps, hold an insane level of narcissism. And this is not suggested of the human resource and recruiting field in which I'm a contributor. This being said, forgetting about the grievous impact of COVID-19 and its mutations, the disease was never so...

Writing things down and researching has become very personal to me -- as a mechanism, or tool, to mediate PTSD -- such as exposure to war and loss (as in addressing it therapeutically), as that's the only means I could use to serve. Many Veterans I worked with utilize music as a method to treat trauma. And for me, in lieu of bracketing issues, regulating my stress level is chosen music therapy -- particularly Metallica.  Rape victims, and those who suffered war/death/injury first-hand, or heard about events during therapy sessions can choose many therapeutic measures to address trauma exposure. Music and art therapy are effective measures to mediate trauma (Landis-Shack, et. al., 2017), as perhaps many challenges address statue of limitations. And it's beautiful how Veterans tackle trauma first-hand. References Landis-Shack, N., Heinz, A. J., & Bonn-Miller, M. O. (2017). Music therapy for posttraumatic stress in adults: A theoretical review.  Psychomusicology: Music, Mind,...

We dare to say, how to mourn a father after monumental loss --The Big Empty (Walking shoes worn thin) It is symbolic of comparative themes and saturation as a prolonged exposure of loss. Consider loss of a father as a Veteran and loss of a father, say, as a religious education teacher to the point of confirmation.  The sense of loss felt is unimaginable.  However, mothers, who are also teachers and developers, must keep moving in caring for their own biological and religious families. Ceasing to exist in this form, as existence in nature, is not an option. Mothers do not EVER abandon their children or their religious families. Loss is not only physical it is biological as akin to post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and manifests as damage to the host body. For example, diseases of inflammation and the heart. To deal with survivors' guilt, one needs to bracket or channel emotions effectively in order to deescalate levels of cortisol, a fight or flight trauma hormone, in the b...

When “Wray” said “We See lights everywhere” he wasn't talking about klieg lights from the theatre, however it could be aligned to President H.W. Bush's reference to 1,000 points of light to symbolize an individual's service to the community. The phrase is used as a memory time stamp, mnemonic, of clothed security and plain clothed security, as well as academic researchers in a S.W. Arizona business community and LDX with management. This data describes simultaneous actions of many self-celebrative management and of some of perps, to describe pre contemplated actions, and those based on social exchange beneficence, in parallel with ongoing ethnographic lived experience research conducted in a building supply stores. Sample data was also obtained from another sovereign store that does not hold  Rico has established relations with foreign nations, particularly with   Hispanic American  countries such as  Colombia  and  Panama General Field notes post applicabl...

Statistically, most merger and acquisition (M&A) deals are unsuccessful, between 70-90% according to Forbes, with post-acquisition methodology identified as the key variable. Integrating businesses is one of the hardest business tasks and one, sometimes, identified and potentially mediated by external business psychologists trained in culture synergy. These industrial organizational psychologists are well-verves in methodologies to identify nuances of every artifact and its potential impact on business outcomes: consider the analogy of identifying known disease symptomology and appreciating how to implement immediate interventions for stakeholder efficacy. What M&A activities are identified in empirical literature as potential deal pitfalls and how can seasoned resources achieve cost and revenue synergies: 1.      Improve due diligence 2.      Consider and address the psychological impacts of M&A activity on both businesses 3.  ...

These issues should not constitute “shock and awe” and if they do, maybe a wakeup call is in order. These unfortunate supportive themes are based on facts and evidence as exemplified by the empirical nature of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and its complementary Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT). Cutting straight to the point: in personal psychological alignment with our border Czar Tom Homan, I’d like to additionally call out observed ethnographic border state facts: A) BLS jobs could be going to alleged illegals with new names from stolen U.S. identities B) Observed behavior of suspect individuals via ontological studies supporting hypothesis C) Change is only going to occur by exposing the ‘dependent’ leaders who are receiving financial beneficence – for example bribes. What has been evidenced is a lack of jobs in border states due to suspected inflated Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) numbers, and observed consumption of available jobs by aliens, who perhaps assum...

Historically, I've written many articles about personal identity theft for your consumption and protection. But I have yet to summarize what you can do proactively. So please consider the following. It is not known where perp actors obtain personal information to commit acts of malfeasance, but what is known from a human capital perspective is: 1) there are rules and regulations which encapsulate the duration an entity is allowed to possess personal identifiers and 2) there are known methods of personal information destruction. Recommended, thus, and in a phenomenological context is proper disposal of personal information such as shredding the data. If you have experienced data theft, it is known you should contact the FTC and local authorities.  Worth considering, in addition, and much akin to exercises in sourcing, is always the nearest proximity rule. Establish etiology 1) how could access to personal information be obtained (who had access) and 2) what are the motivations of th...

As a former therapist who treated patients of most of the attorneys in a Southwestern state in the United States, it is commonplace for individuals, particularly those who lose a lawsuit in which they were involved, to stalk 1) not only their attorney but 2) their therapist(s) and others involved treating an alleged victim. It can become dangerous if an alleged victim does not win his/her lawsuit and can become the antecedent for conduct disorder against anyone involved with him/her not winning a lawsuit or "network". There can be, bnt is not always, issues of blame that insight conduct disorder. Reaching out to the FBI and local authorities regarding this issue has been commonplace, but never before did it involve ID'ing an individual. What follows is empirical data bolstering this issue. 'Violence toward mental health staff has been receiving national attention in the face of diminishing resources to treat what appears to be an increasingly violent patient populatio...